Photo: Niagara66 · CC BY-SA 4.0Tipp City’s library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Tipp City Public Library serves 15,296 people in and around Tipp City. Last year it lent 251K books, movies and e-books and logged 76K visits.
What Tipp City’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
60% of the budget comes from the state, and 28% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 4.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 97% of similar-size libraries. It’s 30% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
A system of heavy borrowers
Tipp City Public Library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, more than 93% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
Kids’ borrowing is a standout
Children’s books and media are 52% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 93% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
Programs lean toward adults
53% of the 470 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 172 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; Tipp City Public Library serves 15,296 people in and around Tipp City, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Tipp City’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Tipp City is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns, #259 of 914 in Ohio. Tipp City is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
41 community nonprofits are registered in Tipp City
3.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (9 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
10.4%
10.4% of Tipp City’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.5% in the typical Ohio town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Tipp City’s residents live; 2022.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
251K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
75,350 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Tipp City Public Library serves 15,296 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 85 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Tipp City Public Library system. The library’s own count.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., Tipp City.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Tipp City Public Library branch.
New in Tipp City? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $3.93 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tipp City cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $985K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $985K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 7,143 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tipp City | Tipp City Public Library fine-free | — | 57 | A− |
| Monroe Township | Tipp City Public Library fine-free | — | 57 | A− |
| Bethel Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Staunton Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Tipp City Public Library serves 15,296 people in and around Tipp City, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Tipp City.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Tipp City
Does Tipp City have a public library?
Yes. Tipp City Public Library, 11 E. Main St., serves 15,296 people in and around Tipp City (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tipp City Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Tipp City’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 16.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Tipp City’s civic life grade?
A− Tipp City is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns on civic life, #259 of 914 in Ohio. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Tipp City.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.